The Official ZT0562 Thread!! (FIRST LOOK)

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You guys may find flippers that feature weak detents like the Hinderer XM-18 and the Benchmade 300 more to your liking. Most folks that buy flippers buy them to . . . well . . . flip open. And reliable opening with an unassisted flipper ordinarily requires a strong detent.
 
In ZT's defense, they specifically made the blade stops the way they did so that it would prevent thumb deployment, since they are only supposed to serve as blade stops. They have been saying that since the knife debuted at SHOT Show.

I'm not sure why they couldn't just be thumbstuds as well but that's apparently not what Rick Hinderer intended :confused:
 
Misanthropia said:
I'm not sure why they couldn't just be thumbstuds as well but that's apparently not what Rick Hinderer intended :confused:
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Probably because using the blade stops as thumbstuds would have required weakening the detent. I, for one, am glad the blade stops DON'T work that way.

The 0562 is a flipper, boys and girls. It's designed to be opened using its flipper. If you don't like opening your flippers using their flippers, why buy flippers in the first place? :confused:
 
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This knife was designed to be a flipper only knife. The 0560 was also designed to be a flipper only as well but they used thumb studs for blade stops. People complained because the detent was to strong for some to open using thumb studs.

In order to make the detent as string as they wanted, the shortened and domed the blade stops so they can't be used as thumb studs.
 
bld522 said:
Probably because using the blade stops as thumbstuds would have required weakening the detent. I, for one, am glad the blade stops DON'T work that way.

The 0562 is a flipper, boys and girls. It's designed to be opened using its flipper. If you don't like opening your flippers using their flippers, why buy flippers in the first place? :confused:
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Nailed it
 
I remember having an extensive thread in the previous sub-forum re: Are they blade stops or thumb studs?I never could seem to comfortably open the the knife using the blade stops as thumb studs,so I just use the flipping method exclusively.The 0562CF looks like a nice blade and a winner.I believe it will be very popular, but not trend changing like I consider the 0560.ZT kind of took another direction after the release of the 0560 for the better in my eyes.The 0562 CF is an example of this trend and I hope they keep bringing more exciting models to market. I will have grab one down the line after all the hype blows by and it's regularly in stock at dealers.I would like it more if all the hardware was satin instead of two tone.Looks like a very nice knife that I will own at some point......Will M390 be the new steel for production model ZT's going forward?
 
I was very interested in the 0562CF but now I'm rethinking after I handled the black G10 0562.
I think it's still too big for me for daily EDC. The steel, grind, material are amazing but the size.
Probably it's perfect for most of you guys.
 
You and I are in the same boat, Kurniadion. Come join me on the sidelines while I await the hopeful release of the 3.0" version of the 0562CF. In the meantime, have you checked out the 0770CF? It's definitely an EDC-sized folder . . . or at least it is for me. :)
 
Got a 0562CF and it is really nice.


[video=youtube;6pAQ1mC-ipk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAQ1mC-ipk&list=UU6QBPWfbozFcHj2neB2rxfw[/video]
 
Yeah... 3" 0562CF would be perfect Bld522!!! Count my name in!

Sadly I prefer manual action so 0770 is out of the game ;)
 
"What did you use to take the black off the screws?"

I clamp them into a pair of plastic foreseps(sp?) or you could use needle nose vice grips (carefully) and take the black rite off with the wire brush on my grinder.
Comes off in seconds.
 
And then there were two....



So I did manage to secure another 0562CF - the second example (which is the one with the satin finished screws in the above photo) a much higher serial number than my first, which is #70. I lucked out and got number 390 (which is kinda cool since the steel is M390). The second was purchased as a "project knife" that I'll be doing various upgrades and changes to. As you can see I've already removed the black PVD/paint coating on all screws.

Note that you can see that somewhere along the line they corrected how the scales were being cut. In my first example (black hardware) you can see the scale covers the underside gimping on the stainless liner. In the second example (satin polished hardware) you can see that the scale in the same area is cut higher so as to not cover the gimping.

It doesn't really bug me one way or the other as I consider the gimping more aesthetic than helpful for grip/traction. But I'd imagine all it would take is a call to ZT for a replacement scale cut correctly if you have one of the early ones that wasn't cut correctly.
 
I prefer the older style myself where the cf scale fully covers the jimping; a look at the ti frame lock shows that the jimping isn't cut all the way through, so I don't believe it should be fully exposed on the non ti side either.
 
GundaManiac said:
I prefer the older style myself where the cf scale fully covers the jimping; a look at the ti frame lock shows that the jimping isn't cut all the way through, so I don't believe it should be fully exposed on the non ti side either.
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Yeah I agree, I thought it was meant to be like that, seemed very uniform
 
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